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A Necrotic Disease of Tulip Caused by Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus
Author(s) -
Mowat W. P.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
plant pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.928
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1365-3059
pISSN - 0032-0862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3059.1972.tb01754.x
Subject(s) - biology , virus , strain (injury) , virology , virulence , necrosis , plant virus , veterinary medicine , gene , genetics , medicine , anatomy
SUMMARY An isolate of tomato bushy stunt virus was obtained from a tulip plant affected by a necrotic disease. The isolate differs from the type strain in virulence in some experimental hosts, and serologically is more closely related to a pelargonium leaf curl strain than to the type strain. When transmitted manually to tulip plants, both the tulip isolate and the type strain of tomato bushy stunt virus produced leaf symptoms indistinguishable from those caused by tobacco necrosis virus, but the tomato bushy stunt isolates had effects on the flowers different from those caused by tobacco necrosis virus.